IUCN Status: Critically Endangered
EPBC Threat Rating: Very high
IUCN Claim: “The population at Mt. Buller suffers from fragmentation and subpopulations here and around ski resorts in the Kosciuszko area have declined severely since 2000 due to: habitat destruction, predation by feral cats, and possibly low snow cover. ’”
Possums were found in cat’s diet (Doherty et al. 2015).
No studies
There are no studies linking cats to pygmy possum populations.
Wallach et al. 2023 In Submission